<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Lindsay Mathieson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lindsay.mathieson@gmail.com">lindsay.mathieson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Wed, 7 Jan 2009 12:44:19 am Kevin Kuphal wrote:<br>
> r better yet, move everything to the new drive, mount the new drive where<br>
> the old drive was mounted in your filesystem, then remount the old drive in<br>
> a new place for videos. Don't have to change anything for Storage Groups.<br>
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</div>How do you copy it? a simple "cp -a " won't get the boot stuff will it?</blockquote><div><br>Moving a boot disk is a whole 'nother matter. I wouldn't do that. For example:<br><br>If your videos are in /var/mythtv, then:<br>
<br>1. Mount new drive in a temp location like /mnt/newdrive.<br>2. Move (mv) all your files from /var/mythtv to /mnt/newdrive<br>3. Unmount /mnt/newdrive<br>4. Mount your new drive in /var/mythtv (which is now an empty folder)<br>
5. Done<br><br>Your "root" disk now has free space you can use however you want and your new drive is taking the place of /var/mythtv<br><br>Kevin</div></div><br>